I have an HDHomerun Extend and would like to watch Live TV with highest quality (or original), but record shows in lower quality - to save space. It doesn’t appear that you can do this. It would be nice in Advanced settings under each recording if you could specify a recording quality if the tuner supports quality settings.
I believe the Extend is the only device that would support quality settings but I could be wrong…
You can setup a post processing script that will convert your recorded shows to lower quality and smaller file size but yeah having that out of the box and not needing to waste CPU if your tuner can do it already does make sense.
Or you could just buy a really large drive to accommodate your recordings. My 8TB drive is still holding strong with all the stuff I have on it.
@brianwilson - I voted your post, though it seems no one else agrees. I came here looking to see if this feature had been requested after the Roku (plexpass preview) recently got Live TV.
@nokdim - yes, though the Extend may be the only device that has onboard encoding, it would still be great if we could set a Live TV quality on the clients, and when setting up recordings, set each recording for a specified quality. Perfect example, there are some shows and movies I record and want in full quality due to visual effects/color range, and then there are some episodic shows and movies I only want for content/story, or have little visuals needing HD.
The ability to have individualized options rather than one great big cover all umbrella would be great, even for the devices without compression.
@Ericbazinga - I’m glad your drive space works for you. Perhaps you only have one computer in the household?
I have 4 computers that are frequently used (about 25 internet capable devices in all including media/mobile/PC).
I’d love to have some 8TB drives in my server right now for my primary storage. But, when I consider that I use a NAS to back up my main computers, plus store additional libraries on, that’s a bit more than I want to afford to also upgrade my NAS storage to then be able to back up my computers.
Unfortunately some of us, especially those of us with NAS backup solutions can’t/don’t want to throw money at multiple larger drives.
